Chinese Character Wiki

庠

xiáng

village school

Components
广 meaning component

广  Meaning component

yǎn, guǎng

  

roof

building

羊 sound component

羊  Sound component

yáng

  

sheep

Evolution

庠 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
庠 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
庠 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

庠  

xiáng

village school; teach; asylum for the aged; school

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-[ɢ]aŋ

zjang

xiáng

school


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

4537th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+5EA0

Shuowen

“庠，禮官養老，夏曰校，殷曰庠，周曰序。从广，羊聲。”


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